I have a general understanding issue and worklow advice question about content-managment.
What is the worklow if the sum of content for all clients is to much for the manager?
On smaller projects I would have my content on my manager and spread it from there to the client(s) - no problem.
Now I have a larger show coming up with almost 40 Outputs on several clients. The files are big, because they are long and in HAP (which I want to keep it that way).
The general understanding question:
how does the manager playback content? I assume it doesn't actually play all the footage, like the clients do, but only creates Previews / Cache Files?
(especially if it's a large number of files like in this case)
The workflow question:
How to I manage the content in the manager? Does the manager necessarily have to have all the content on it's internal harddrive while the show is running, or can the files be disconnected? I do not have such large internal harddrives.
I was thinking of coping the files directly to the clients and "reconnect" them individually in Pandora. (Or spread from an external harddrive individually to its destination).
One idea for the manager is making mpeg-2 files, and then have the manager play mpeg-2 and the clients hap. But that seems like twice the work and I wonder if this is at all necessary?
Can a show run problem free, if the files on the manager are offline? Meaning: importing the files from an external harddrive to manager -> spread to or connect on clients -> programm the show -> disconnect the drive them from the manager. (Or keep it connected. But it is an external HDD - does this cause performance issues?)
What is the recommended workflow?
Thanks,
rené